Warm white, daylight white, bright white LEDs for kitchen?

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We're having to replace all of our kitchen downlights (currently GU5.3 halogens) because Reasons. Our electrician wants to know, obviously, which colour LEDs - as per thread title - we would like, so he can get them ordered.

In most other rooms in the house, it's obvious (to me) what colour is best, e.g. warm white lights in all living areas for cosiness, bright white lights in the bathroom for seeing the full horror of wrinkle and facial hair. But the kitchen is a funny one for me, so I was wondering what other people have.

I would think warm white lights are too cosy-looking for doing kitchen chores, whilst bright white lights are too cold-looking, but how about daylight white - is that also cold-looking (kitchen is north-facing and physically a very cold room)? I just can't visualise it.

One thing to bear in mind is whether you can change the bulbs. LEDs are supposed to have really long lifespans, but it can still be a PITA if one goes and it's in a sealed unit. Effectively you have to replace the entire light fitting. Not sure if this is the case for the Solo ones or not?

(I am uming and ahing about this with some larger ceiling lights at the moment - do I go for the ones I love and just accept that I might have to change the whole thing? Or do I get something with a switchable bulb).

Fortunately, with spotlights, there are options that allow you to have a removeable bulb that has a full spectrum of white light. Ikea even do one.

Effectively you have to replace the entire light fitting.

I'll be able to tell you for sure when they're installed but the electrician said that, although you would have to replace the whole fitting when it dies, it basically just plugs in and I could do it myself.

LEDs don't have bulbs, do they, that's the point.

Yes, if they are fitted into transformers within the unit, yes, they just plug into that and are easy to change.

The 'light' is a tiny little strip thingy of which mine had about 30, split into three sections. In some one sector had 'gone' and in others all the sectors (so no light at all). You can bypass the one strip that is 'gone' and somehow connect up all the ones that are not so the sector works again, a bit like with the old Christmas tree lights, but this requires soldering and as the units I got were only £10 each it really didn't seem worth it.